Matt
Winn 03 took this photo in COS 495, Special Topics in
Computer Science: Medical Informatics, taught by visiting
professor C. William Hanson, M.D. In the class, students designed
futuristic home health networks and presented them on the
display wall in the computer science building.

CAMPUS

Fewer
alcohol-related problems at sign-ins

In the past, the excitement
of joining an eating club has gone hand in hand with alcohol violations
and trips to McCosh Infirmary and Princeton Medical Center. While
several students this year were treated for alcohol-related problems
during "initiations weekend," February 8-10, both at the
"Street" and in the dorms, Princetons medical and
law enforcement officials agreed that this year was calmer than
years in recent memory.Eight
students were admitted to McCosh Infirmary for intoxication due
to eating club related activity, and three were taken to Princeton
Medical Center on the weekend of February 8 and 9, according to
Dr. Pamela Bowen, director of Princeton University Health Services.
"The numbers were definitely less than last
year," Bowen said. "Sixteen students were treated for
alcohol intoxication on Friday and Saturday of initiations weekend
last year versus nine this year."
According to Dr. Bowen, 12 students in all were
treated this year compared to 23 students in 2001. Even with fewer
students to treat, only one bed in the infirmary was open on Sunday
morning, but not all were filled eating club related cases, said
Bowen.
According to public safety reports, six students
were brought to Princeton Medical Center between Tuesday, February
5 and Sunday, February 10. Public Safety also noted "severe
alcohol violations" on Friday, February 8, the day bicker clubs
picked up their new members.Princeton
Borough Police issued two students summonses for carrying open containers,
according to Captain Anthony Federico."Compared
to past years, it was quiet," Captain Federico said.This
year, initiations weekend coincided with the spread of gastroenteritis,
more commonly known as the stomach flu. On Sunday, February 10,
the infirmary had admitted eight students with the stomach virus,
said Dr. Bowen.
"Princeton University Health Services surmises
that the intense activity with many students in close proximity
to each other over the weekend and allowed the gastroenteritis to
spread more easily from person to person," Bowen said. 
Melissa Renny 03

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the head of Harvards
black studies program, has said that he will decide this summer
whether to follow colleague Anthony Appiah, appointed a full professor
in Princetons philosophy department, to Princeton.

Seniors
Abbie Liel and Lillian Pierce received the university's Moses
Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred
on an undergraduate, and graduate students Howard Keeley and Melissa
Miller were named co-winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship,
which supports the final year of graduate study, at Alumni Day ceremonies
Saturday, February 23. These are the highest honors Princeton awards
to students.

A
molecular biologist leading an independent investigation into last
falls anthrax attacks, Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, told
an audience at the Woodrow Wilson School on February 18, that the
FBI knows that the perpetrator is American, according to the
Daily Princetonian which reported the story. Some U.S. government
insiders, she said, agree on one likely person whom they believe
is responsible for the attacks. That person, she said in the speech,
is probably an anthrax expert with access to a U.S. government strain
of the anthrax virus, the "Ames" strain. She said that
the FBI is reluctant to prosecute this person because of the risk
of making public the nations bioweapons program. But an FBI
spokeswoman later dismissed Rosenbergs allegations as "purely
speculative."

Professor
of Astrophysical Sciences, Emeritus, Harold P. Furth, a pioneer
in the U.S. fusion program, died of heart failure on February 21,
in Philadelphia. He was 72.

Bernard
Lewis, the Cleveland Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies,
emeritus, has been awarded a 2001 George Polk Journalism Award
for magazine reporting. One of the Wests leading authorities
on the Arab world, Lewis was recognized for a story that appeared
last November in the New Yorker titled "The Revolt of
Islam." The piece "sought to make the unthinkable understandable,
by examining the historical context and likely impact of Islams
war with the West," according to the award committee.

President
Jacques Chirac of France has awarded the Legion of Honor
to Ezra Suleiman, the IBM Professor of International Studies
and chair of the Committee for European Studies at Princeton. The
award recognizes Suleimans contributions to France and to
French-American relations.

Paul Krugman,
a professor of economics and public affairs and a New York Times
columnist who has criticized Enron in his columns, received $50,000
for serving on Enrons board in 1999. According to the
Daily Princetonian : "Before joining the Times in October
1999, Krugman had written an article in Fortune magazine
promoting Enron. He disclosed his involvement with the company in
a Times column on January 24 of last year." He wrote,
"Full disclosure: Before this newspapers conflict-of-interest
rules required me to resign, I served on an Enron advisory board
that turns out to have been a hatchery for future Bush administration
officials. (What was I doing there? Beats me.)"

Scott Shoemaker, a graduate
student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, was named as
a recipient of the Biophysical Society Student Travel Award for
the Year 2002. Shoemakers award was based on the scientific
merit of the abstract he submitted to the Biophysical Society. The
Biophysical Society is a professional scientific society established
to encourage development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics.

History professor Peter
Lake and English professor Nigel Smith will teach a
new interdisciplinary study of Europe and its colonies. The
new program  The Behrman Senior Fellows program under the
aegis of the Council of the Humanities  will span from the
Renaissance to the French Revolution, reported the Daily Princetonian.

The National Science
Foundation has granted CAREER awards, its most prestigious early-career
research grant, to three Princeton faculty members. David August,
assistant professor of computer science;Jeffrey Carbeck,
assistant professor of chemical engineering; and Evgenii Narimanov,
assistant professor of electrical engineering, received five-year
grants each worth about $375,000. August will develop techniques
and tools to aid the design of computer processor systems. Carbeck
plans to develop miniature devices like computer chips that catalog
all the proteins made by a particular cell and then analyze how
the proteins interact. Narimanov will use the grant to study the
resonances and scattering of light in certain kinds of non-electrically
-conducting materials.

Martin Plissner, former executive political director of
CBS-TV News and author: "Television and the Making of the President
in 2000: Lessons for the Next Round"March 6, 4:30 p.m., Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Plasma Physics Science
on Saturday, March 9, 9:30 a.m.: The Science of Radiowave
and Microwave Probing of Ionospheric and Fusion Plasmas, Raffi Nazikian,
PPPL (laboratory tour following lecture). Heightened security measures
are presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events
on September 11. For more information about the series or the forms
of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday
Hotline at 609-243-2121.

Plasma Physics Science
on Saturday, March 16, 9:30 a.m.: Bioinformatics in the
Post-Genomic Era, Mona Singh, Department of Computer Science. Heightened
security measures are presently in effect at the laboratory because
of the events on September 11. For more information about the series
or the forms of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call
the Science-on-Saturday Hotline at 609-243-2121.

The lectures are free
and open to the public, Heightened security measures are presently
in effect at the laboratory because of the events on Sept. 11. For
more information about the series or the forms of ID required for
entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday Hotline
at 609-243-2121

March 2 
"How the Brain Got Its Folds: Learning About Function by Looking
at Structure," Samuel Wang, Princeton Department of Molecular
Biology.

Heightened security measures
are presently in effect at the laboratory because of the events
on September 11. For more information about the series or the forms
of ID required for entrance to the laboratory, call the Science-on-Saturday
Hotline at 609-243-2121.

Art Museum

"Klinger to Kollwitz:
German Art in the Age of Expressionism," an overview of late-19th-and
early-20th-century German art, will be on view through June 9.

The photographs of Fazal Sheikh 87, who went to Afghanistan
after the Taliban had taken power, are on display at the Jane Voorhees
Zimmerli Art Museum at the State University of New Jersey, at Rutgers,
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, through March 31. (732-932-7237)
The show is titled "The Victor Weeps: Photographs by Fazal
Sheikh of Afghan Refugees, 1996-98."

The Legal Times reported in December
that Charlie Richards 59 is representing Ken Lay, former
CEO of Enron.

Ivy League Sports (http://www.IvyLeagueSports.com)
celebratedBlack History Month with a Web presentation of
stories, anecdotes, photos and memories. Princetonians featured
on the Web site are Nicole Harrison 98, for track and
field, Armond Hill 85, for basketball, and Deborah
Saint-Phard 87, for her heptagonal achievements. The Web
site highlights both the rich history of African-Americans
achievements in Ivy League athletics, and the diverse contributions
that these graduates have made to their institutions, their communities,
and the nation at large.

The New York Times has appointed R.W.
Apple, Jr. 57, who has covered wars, revolutions, and
other world and national events for the paper for almost 40 years,
to associate editor. "The title connotes a senior status of
a special sort, as a writer, editor and a kind of resident sage
on journalism," Howell Raines, the newspapers executive
editor told the Times.

Michael "Dooma" Wendschuh 99,
a recent graduate of the Peter Stark Producing Program at USC, just
sold his first movie to Disney. The film is based on Kenneth Grahames
classic "The Wind in the Willows."

Peter B. Lewis 55 is among the
nations most generous donors. The Chronicle of Philanthropy
listed him as the ninth most generous donor in its February 7 issue
for pledging to donate $118 million last year to nonprofits, including
the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and Princeton. Lewis
has donated funds for the Institute for Integrative Genomics and
last fall pledged $60 million for a new science library.

The
photographs of Fazal Sheikh 87, who went to Afghanistan
after the Taliban had taken power, are on display at the Jane Voorhees
Zimmerli Art Museum at the State University of New Jersey, at Rutgers,
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, through March 31. (732-932-7237)
The show is titled "The Victor Weeps: Photographs by Fazal
Sheikh of Afghan Refugees, 1996-98."

SPORTS

Womens
swimming and diving earns third straight Ivy title The defending Ivy
League swimming and diving champions started out slowly at the conference
championships this weekend at Harvard, but Princeton retained onto
its title, squeaking by Brown 706-691. The Tigers finished the first
day of the competition in second place behind Brown. But Princeton
was sparked on Day Two by its 200-medley relay team, which took
first place and 40 points. The team includes Kate Conroy 02,
Chrissy Holland 03, Chrissy Macaulay 05, and Molly Seto
03. Conroy went on to win the 100-yard backstroke in 55.74
and Macaulay won the 100-yard breaststroke. Senior Valeria Kukla
added a victory in the 1,000-yard freestyle to go along with her
first place finish in the 500-yeard freestyle on the opening day
of the tourney to give Princeton three individual champions on Day
Two and a 27-point lead. Day Three saw the Tigers hold onto most
of that lead and capture the title with strong swims from Holland,
who finished second in the 200-yard backstroke, and Lisa Battaglia
04, who finished third in the 200-yard backstroke. Senior
diver Katherine Mattison won the 1-meter diving event on the first
day of the competition and finished third in 3-meter event on the
final day.

Mens
basketball storms into first place in Ivies A semblance of
normalcy has emerged at the top of the Ivy League mens basketball
standings thanks to Princetons 59-46 victory against upstart
Yale on Friday and the Bulldogs loss to Penn on Saturday.
Princeton (14-9, 9-2) also stomped Brown 73-47 the following night
and now sits alone atop the Ancient Eight. The Tigers put on a defensive
show for a sold out Jadwin Gym against Yale, which entered the game
averaging 78 points per game. But Princeton stymied the Bulldogs
offense and got 16 points and a lot energy off the bench from Ed
Persia 04 to avenge a loss earlier this month in New Haven.
The Tigers took a 25-15 lead into the locker room at halftime after
Wil Venable 05s coast-to-coast, breakaway lay-up and
Mike Bechtold 02s buzzer-beating three-pointer. During
a physical second half that saw technical fouls handed out on both
sides, Princeton continued to befuddle and frustrate Yales
scorers and led by as many as 19 points. "This was the biggest game
of the year," said Princeton coach John Thompson after the Yale
game. "If you lose this game, you don't have control of the title."
Princetons victories, coupled with Yales losses, left
the Tigers as the only team in the league with some control of its
own destiny. If Princeton wins its three remaining games at Cornell
(March 1), Columbia (March 2), and Penn (March 5), the Tigers win
the league title. Three other teams are still in the hunt: Penn
(8-3), Yale (9-3), and Harvard (7-5). The Tigers season-ending
showdown with Penn at the Palestra should decide the league champion.
But a Penn win coupled with Yale, Princeton and Penn sweeping their
upcoming weekend series could lead to the first three-way
tie in Ivy history and set up a playoff for the leagues automatic
NCAA berth.

\Its
a strong #2 finish for mens squash Princeton faced
off with top-ranked Trinity College for the second time this year
on Sunday. This time the stakes were higher  the NCAA mens
squash championship  but the results were the same. Top-ranked
Trinity, once again fielding a squad of international squash stars,
outscored the second-ranked Tigers 8-1 in the NCAA finals at Harvard
on Sunday. The Ivy champions defeated Cornell and Yale en route
to the finals, but could only muster a victory from junior Dan Rutherford
at the No. 3 spot against Trinity, which earned its third straight
national championship. "It was close at some matches," said Princeton
coach Bob Callahan 77. "We put up a good fight, but they are
too strong."

Fifth
straight HEPs title for mens track and field Captain Tora Harris
02 won his seventh Heptagonal high jump title with a 2.18-meter
leap, leading Princeton to a comeback win for its fifth straight
Indoor Heptagonal Championship at Cornell. The Tigers were in third
place after the first day of the meet. But Harris title along
with Paul Lyons 05s shot put title, Jonathan Klieliszak
04s victory in the mile and a win in the 4x800-meters
from seniors Seamus Whelton and Ryan Smith, Klieliszak and David
Dean 03 helped Princeton pull away from their Ivy rivals with
127 points. Penn and Dartmouth tied for second with 81 points, while
Harvard and Cornell brought in the rear. Josh McCaughey 04
gave Princeton its first title of the meet with a victory in the
weight throw on opening day.